Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).

Our online Searchable Best Books List draws from the committee's annual Best Children's Books of the Year-beginning with the list of books published in 2000-with each featuring more than 600 high-quality titles for young readers.

To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.

How to Perform a Search and Save a List

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

Steve Sheinkin

Ages: 14+

Published: 2023

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck

ISBN: 978-1-250-26572-2

Keywords: WWII, concentration camps, resistance

Two Slovakian teens risked their lives: he, to escape the horrors in Nazi concentration camps and warn the world; she, to survive and aid the Resistance. Maps, extensive back matter. Mature content